ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil is an American multinational oil and gas corporation that was founded on 30 November 1999, headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company replaced Standard Oil, becoming its largest direct descendant. ExxonMobil became the world's seventh-largest company by revenue and by market capitalization, and it was named the second most profitable company in 2014. It was renowned as the largest of the Big Oil companies, producing 3,921,000 barrels of oil daily; at the end of 2016, it had a reserve of 20,000,000,000 barrels of oil. The company was infamous for its slow response to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, while it also lobbied for climate change denial and drilled in terrains leased to them by dictatorships such as Chad and Equatorial Guinea. In 2016, the company had a revenue of $218,600,000,000; it also had 73,500 employees.